Terminal illness symptoms and conditions

I have had Mirena for about a year now. My periods never really went away. They did used to be very heavy before my Mirena was inserted but I seem to bleed or have bloodlike discharge more like three weeks out of four now. I too have experienced sore cyst like acne on my chin which I have never had in my life, and it comes and goes and seems to be in one area. I have not felt like myself at times, as if theres a cloudiness, which has often times made me wonder if I am coming down with a terminal illness. No doubt it is just the effects of the Mirena since I have always been healthy. I have lost complete interest in sex and that was NOT like me, I even need lotion and it takes a lot to get me interested, and I do it only to make him happy now. I feel like a completely different person right now. I have never had a problem maintaining my weight and knew how to take off an extra 5 lbs like no one else but seems like even if I starve myself I have the added puffiness around my abdomen even if I suck it in. I have always been 120 or 125 on a bad day, since I was a teen even after having three kids. If I work out or even if I don't, but now after a year I am 130 on a bad day and 125 on a good day and as I said I have to try extremely hard to have the good day. I have less energy in the gym and my heart rate goes through the roof, it seems much harder to catch my breath. I blame my IUD. I have for the past two days experienced lower pelvic pain, behind my vaginal wall. Im pretty sure it is the Mirena. Doctors seem to keep telling you guys what they think to be true when with all due respect they should be more concerned about what the patients who are actually on this method are experiencing and with that information they really should have more research done on this before making an non educated guess.

I have been on this drug for a year. I have never felt worse in my life. I am a 54 year old woman who works out daily and am not overweight but I have HBP. My side effects did not start until 6 months after being on this drug, so I didn't think right away that it was this drug.
I would wake up with severe leg cramps at night that would not go away. I had severe pain in the lower back and on both sides where the kidneys are. I thought I had a terminal illness. I could not function in my life at all. My dr. changed my RX to Benicar which is in the same family the results were worse than the lisinopril. I took myself off both drugs for two days and all symptoms went away except the HBP. I am now on amlodipine for two days so far so good no cramps no pain. The only side effect is flushing which is a piece of cake next to what I lived with.
I am also so happy I found this site I thought I was either dying or going crazy.

I can understand some peoples concern for others stopping their medication without completing the full peried of time.. However, sometimes, it is unavoidable.. My mother is terminally ill. She has a bed sore that involves a staff infection. They put her on Levaquin for one week. She experineced sever stomach pain, overall body pain.. You couldn't touch her without her crying out in pain.. She would barely eat or drink. At one point the nurses thought she might be having a heart attack as the whole left side of her body had shooting pains up and down it.. I asked then if they thought it might be the antibiotic as it started the day after she took the first dose. They didn't think so.

A couple of weeks later, the infection in the sore resurfaced, and they started her on another round of Levaquin. Same exact symptoms, only this time she started getting body swelling, she could not hardly swallow, and was terribly short of breath.. It was horrible, but again dispite my concerns, they made me continue the med with her and even wanted her to have an extra weeks worth..

After 8 days, I had had enough.. My mother was suffering extensively, it was as if this medication would kill her before her terminal illness would.. I INSISTED that they take her off this med...Three day have passed.. She has some of her appitite back, the swelling went away, you can touch her now except that her heel is still very sore. She is alert and can swallow again.. NO ONE will tell me is wasn't because of Levaquin.. No more shortness of breath.. All the serious side affects have diminished greatly.. I have recently read that people with heart disease as well as mild renal failure should be watched closely with this med.. My mother has both as well as COPD...Why did they even prescribe this med for her??